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I WOULD LIKE TO MEET THE HEART OF THE WORLD 1997

Series of 11 works each measuring roughly 120 x 170 acrylic on canvas and mixed media

 


In northern Prague we can find Theresienstadt, a small town of Czechoslovakia; its streets are examples of a planned architecture, dark and severe, and they preserve the memory of a past painly in contrast with the immaterials borders of the sky. I entered into the close concentration camp of Terezin, as a tourist, I crossed all the courts while my feet were drawing, on the pavement, the rythm of a step whose sound wouldn't propagate in the air but would become more metallic and deafening, displacing my thoughts, full of horror, through the time...In the south I visited that ancient land which supported the trusting man with the sea water; a land whose amazing brightness becomes part of the time; where people of different religions find their origin in the same temples. Thete I overcame prohibitions, road blocks, discriminations and I saw the memory of pain in children's eyes. In the centre of Europe these young artists draw with trembling hands. I would like to go away, to forget the eyes I have met, even those belonging to the ones I didn't know, though, in my mind, places, time and events are mixing within a sensation of affection. That is why my timorous hands can't help repeating that aesthetic gesture which turned into shapes, colours and images the arrogance of those hateful men. Libera

I worked flat
out for so long
looking for a safe place
to put a little stone imperfect
colored
my last treasure.

the immobile silence
of space
a warning
for the crude
conceit
of the metal warriors.
that dress
had puffed sleeves
like small
far-off moons.
Nothing
Nothing else
more Nothing
yet again Nothing
It's All
All this
immense
infinite
space!
 
in the heart
of technics
is entrenched
the corruption of
Metaphysics